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fancy. II the education vas ~ high as IL
was possible TO AFFORD q young and intelli-
cent spirit, the moral influences were
equally beneficial. The young Princess,
instead OF being isolated within the formal
tiles Of a court, was allowed TO become ac-
quainted with the wants and suiferings OF
the poor, and to indulge her sympathies by
giving them personal help. The contrast
was a great one between the Court OF
George w., or even that OF William, and
the truly English home where the Duchess
of Kent nurtured this sweet life in all that
was simple, loving, and pure. There could
scarcely have been better school Tor an
affeetionate nature.
Without touching on the earlier period
Of her reign, which was not without many
incidents of interest, we turn to the married
years of the Queen as to q bright and
sunny memory.
The Queens married life was ideally
perfect She married the man she loved,
and each year deepened her early affection
into an admiration, reverence and a pr1de
which elevated her love into conservation.
There was no home in England made more
beautiful by oil that was tender, cultured,
and noble, than that in which "the blame-
less prince" fulfilled his heroic career OF
duty, and shed the bright light OF his joy
Gus, afTectionate, and keenly intellectual
life. Thelo were fewer homes In which O
greater amount of trying and anxious work
was more systematically accomplished, or
in which there was more exquisite
blending of hard thinking with the
endowment OF the fine arts and the
fullness of loving family happiness.
IL is when we come 10 this bright time,
so full Of fresh interest and of delight
| full freedom that we have the advantages
a H..
| Journal of Our Life i'll the Highlands"
Her visit to Edinburgh in 1912, and the
drive by Birnam aEd Aberrold 10 Tay-
mouth, and the splendor of the reception,
| when amid tho cheers o. thousand High
landers and the wild notes of the bag
pipes, she was welcomed by Lord Breadal-
bane, evidently stirred every feeling OF
romance. at seemed" she wrote, "as
if o great chleftain OF olden feudal
times was receiving his sovereign: :
1t appeared like new world
when, throwing off for time the reslric-
tions of state, she found herself at Blair
two wears afterward, climbing the great
hills of Athol, and from tue top OF Tulioch
looking forth ON the panorama OF noun
tain and glen. "It was quite romantic;
here we were with only this Highlander
behind us holding the ponies; not q
house, not n creature near US but the pretty
Highland sheep, with their horns ana
black faces. it was the most delight
full, most romantic ride and walk
ever had" These early visits 10 Scotland
inspired her with her love OF the highlands
and the Highlander5. She found there
quite world OF poetry. The majestic
scenery, the fresh, brLcing air, the pic
turesaueness Of the killed gillies, the pip
ing and the dancing, and the long days
among the heather, recalled scenes which
Sir Walter Scott has glorifed for all time
and which are specially identified with the
fortunes Of the unhappy Stuarts.
We do not wonder at the attachment fel
by the royal pair for Balmoral. The High
lands have a charm which every healthy
mind must acknowledge. The sportsman
and the tourist confess it when they rusi
from the crowded town and the cares o.
business, or from the tanner beauties OF cul
tured lands, 10 enjoy bath OF liberty" oi
the fresh seas and lochs of theWestern Heb
rides or among the vast solitude OF th'
Grampians.
1t was here that the Queen aud the Prince
Consort enjoyed for more than twelve year
q delightful freedom, mingling with thei
people, devising the wisest methods for in
suring tkeir we'll ing, going with them I.
worship in their plain VERY plaino parisl
church, and being to each and oil unn1ect
edly sincere friends. Every spot aroun'
soon became consecrated by some swee
association. Her life at Balmoral, sine
her great sorrow, maintains, as FAR as ma.
be. the traditions of the happy past. Sh
still makes expeditions, cognita or lncOg
nita, sometimes 10 the scenes of forme
enjoyments or 10 new places OF interest.